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Taking a Seven Day Break from Twitter

No real reasons, just being random.

Okay, maybe it's because my idols MetroDad and Kanye West both hate on Twitter, and I will follow anything either of these people say:


"EVERYTHING THAT TWITTER OFFERS I NEED LESS OF.
Sometimes I feel that this is very true.

I was recently at a dinner with a bunch of 20 year olds. All of them spent the entire night twittering. All it did was make me realize that kids today have the attention span of fruit flies. If you speak to them using more than 140 characters, their minds literally go into shutdown mode and they'll go on their iphones and twitter "stuck at dinner with a weird old guy who won't stop talking."

It's not really one of his funnier blog posts overall, and I was actually pretty surprised about how harshly he hates Twitter. One thing I wonder about, I disagree with him about how old the average Twitter user is-- I feel like the Twitter demographic is actually older than most Facebook or social network users... I'd say late-20s to mid-30s at least? That makes Twitter users at least twice as old as MySpace users, right?

I'll also be absent from Facebook for the seven days. I'll still be blogging here on slinlee.com though, so I realize, effectively, I'll still be posting to both Twitter and Facebook, I'll just never know if someone replies from there.

Filed under: facebook kanye metroad posterous twitter

SuperNews! Twitter

The last few days while recovering from my wisdom teeth removal, I've been practicing polyphasic sleeping. Except, instead of sleeping multiple times a day for 20 minutes, and being awake for 3-5 hours, I am awake for about 20 minutes, and then sleep for about 3-5 hours.

During those 20 minutes, I've started twittering like a madman. It's completely ridiculous, but I've been hooked. Since not too many of my friends twitter, I actually find it most interesting to follow companies and products I like, like balsamiq, box dog bikes, OmniGraffle, posterous. It's just like these videos, which I found out about through twitter of course.

Lock in, and follow my tweets!

Twouble with Twitters:


The sequel, Celebrity Twitter Overkill:

Filed under: balsamiq boxDogBikes funny links omniGraffle polyphasicSleep posterousBugs twitter videos wisdomTeeth

Phelpsing Jinen

via twitterrific

I was also testing what happens if I used 'posterous' as the image hosting site for twitterific. Posterous is smart enough to add it to my page, but it doesn't keep any of the twitter text content.
Filed under: iPhone jinen phelps photos posterousBugs testPost twitter

Real Life Twitter - CollegeHumor Video
via collegehumor.com

This dude goes around the streets of New York yelling stuff people say on twitter. Yes, I have tweeted about pictures of a cat.

(via Jinen, thanks)

Filed under: funny links twitter video

Sexy Cameras - as seen in mass media.

Digital might be obliterating film in the hearts of enthusiasts (and consumers), but it seems to be lagging behind somewhat when it comes to visual representations of cameras in the popular mind. This is the current cover of GenLux, billed as "The only luxury fashion and beauty magazine created expressly for today's affluent Southern California woman."

Really? So affluent Southern California women these days are making cool snaps with Canonets?

Not that I disapprove.

via theonlinephotographer.typepad.com

It's true, there's no glamor in shooting with a Canon Point & Shoot in today's media. In TV shows and movies, even if you shoot with an SLR, you're either a perv, or CSI. If I remember correctly, in Stepmom, Julia Roberts shoots with a Leica too.

The only thing today's media finds as sexy as vintage rangefinders are iPhone photos. *If and only if* they're twittered.

Filed under: cameras links media twitter
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